WEBVTT state showed their support for a fallen brother today Dozens of departments escorted the body of Lt. Eric Hosette back to his home in Clinto KCCI's Beau Bowman shows us the procession that began at the State Medical Examiner's Office in Ankeny. In the midst of tragedy.. Fire departments across the state rallied. <Linda Ewoldt, Eldridge:"It is a honorable thing to do."> Saturday, Lt. Eric Hosette responded to a fire... And an explosion... at an A-D-M facility in Clinton. <Linda Ewoldt, Eldridge:"we don't always think about the risks they p themselves in, endanger their lives so we can be protected."> Lt. Eric Hosette - never came home, Saturday night. <:25-:31 "They did everything possible to try and revive him but he did not make it."> After he died, crews transported Hosette to the State Medical Examiner's Office in Ankeny. There - members of the Ankeny Fire Department took turns watching over Hosette's body No one, wanting to fully let-go. A feeling, his brothers in Clinton -- can relate to. <Mike Brown from original pkg 1:02-05: "I just ask for your prayers and your thoughts."> Sunday -- those same Ankeny firefighters escorted Hosette's body from Ankeny to Clinton... Firefighters from all across the state lined the streets to show their support While his loved ones waited... <:20-:22"fine man with a wife and young daughter."> ...For Lt. Eric Hosette to finally come home. Lieutenant Hosette's funeral is expected to be on either Friday or Saturday of this coming week. Laur

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Updated: 7:57 PM CST Jan 10, 2019

DES MOINES, Iowa (KCCI) —

An eastern Iowa firefighter critically injured in a blaze and subsequent explosion at a grain storage facility is “fighting for his life,” family members said in a statement Thursday.

Clinton fire Lt. Eric Hosette, 33, died Saturday while fighting the fire at the Archer Daniels Midland facility in Clinton. Fellow firefighter Adam Cain was taken to a hospital in Iowa City in critical condition.

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Despite the city administrator saying in a news release that Cain’s condition was improving Sunday -- he was breathing on his own, awake and alert -- his family members said the notion that he would be released from the hospital anytime soon “could not be (further) from the truth.”

Kevin Cain, Adam Cain’s father, said his son has “times of good rest, times of restlessness and times of hard struggles that are very scary.”

“Unless you have traveled this journey, there is no way you would understand,” Kevin Cain said.